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Thursday 27 September 2012

Any Election In Cambodia Would Be Meaningless Without The Participation Of The National Rescue Party

On September 25, 2012, opposition leader Sam Rainsy wrote the following letter to The Cambodia Daily:
ANY ELECTION IN CAMBODIA WOULD BE MEANINGLESS
WITHOUT THE PARTICIPATION OF THE NATIONAL RESCUE PARTY

In “Opposition Parties Threaten to Boycott Next Year ‘s Elections”(September 25, page 20) Mr. Koul Panha, executive director of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia, is quoted as saying that a boycott by the two main opposition parties would have a negative effect on the elections, and that “even the CPP would get a less credible result.”
In fact, any election in 2013 without the participation of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and the Human Rights Party (HRP) – which are in the process of merging to form a united democratic opposition under the banner of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) – would just be meaningless.
Cambodia’s political landscape has dramatically changed. There are now only two competing political blocks: the ruling CPP and the opposition CNRP. No other party is likely to get any representation at the National Assembly at the upcoming polls. If we translate the plummeting votes they obtained at the June commune elections into National Assembly seats, the two small royalist parties aligned with the CPP – Funcinpec and the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) – stand to lose the four parliamentary seats they now have (out of 123). This leaves only the CPP and the CNRP.
There can't be a two-party race if the two parties don't take part. Mr. Koul Panha’s comment therefore errs only in the sense of understatement. The CPP’s inevitable landslide victory in the event of a boycott would be just as meaningless as that achieved last Sunday by the ruling party in Belarus. The communist-type government there left the democratic opposition with no option but to boycott the elections after it imprisoned opposing politicians and created criminal records to prevent others from standing.
Sam Rainsy
Elected Member of Parliament
President of the CNRP

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

meaningless election, better than crooked leaders , has affair lover,mistresses,, hide it from public eye

Anonymous said...

Hey Dumb Yuon Dog @28 September 2012 1:01 AM, you are worried about your dirty business in Cambodia under the illegal protection of Dumb Yuon slave Hun Sen.

How much money or wealth you have stolen from Cambodia/Srok Khmer, you Dirty Yuon Crook. You have made no sense and your English writing is still very poor.

You are talking shitty and thinking like animals, Dumb Yuon gook.

Anonymous said...

To 1:01 AM,
Your days are numbered.
You say anything to deceive, and misinform !!!